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Selling
Meat Goats in Arkansas
and Missouri
This
page deals with selling slaughter goats at auctions. We have placed
information on buying and selling breeding stock on the building
your web site page and on the
North Arkansas Meat Goat Association web site, http://www.arkansasmeatgoat.com.
Currently
a majority of Arkansas
and Missouri
slaughter goats and sheep are sold at
livestock auctions and are shipped out of the area for slaughter. Both
goats
and sheep are sold at these sales because buyers prefer to have both
available.
Goats and sheep can be easily handled and hauled together.
San
Angelo, Texas,
and New Holland, Pennsylvania, are the two largest goat and sheep
Auctions in
the United
State.
These two markets set the price
trends for the rest of the country. Links to the latest U.S. Department
of
Agriculture market reports for these two markets along with seven
markets in Missouri
are listed
below. There are no USDA market reports for Arkansas.
Producers Livestock Auction
Company, San
Angelo, Texas
(Weekly,) http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/sa_ls320.txt
New Holland Livestock Auction,
New Holland, Pennsylvania (Weekly,)
http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ln_ls322.txt
Buffalo, Missouri, Sheep
& Goat Market (Monthly) http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/jc_ls322.txt
Diamond, Missouri, Sheep
& Goat Report
(Monthly) http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/jc_ls323.txt
Fruitland (Jackson, Missouri)
Sheep & Goat Auction
(Monthly) http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/jc_ls320.txt
Highlandville, Missouri, Sheep
& Goat Auction
(Monthly) http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/jc_ls311.txt
Mexico, Missouri, Sheep &
Goat Auction (Weekly)
http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/jc_ls324.txt
Oregon County (Koshkonong,
Missouri) Sheep & Goat Buying Station (Monthly) http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/jc_ls321.txt
St. Joseph, Missouri, Sheep
& Goat Auction
(Monthly) http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/sj_ls310.txt
The Oregon County Buying Station at
Koshkonong, Missouri,
is the only USDA graded goat and sheep market in Missouri
or Arkansas.
Animals are
brought between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on the last Saturday of each month,
and
unloaded at the ranch show barn. The animals are sorted by grade and
kind by a
USDA grader, and sent onto the scale. After being weighed, the producer
or
seller is paid immediately. The prices being paid each month are
usually posted
on the web page the Friday prior to the sale, http://www.bubranch.com/Oregon_Buy_Station.html.
There is a $4.00 fee per animal that is sold. All
animals are fed, watered and
treated well until they are loaded for departure.
Many
livestock
auctions accept goats and sheep as part of their regular cattle sales,
but low
volumes of goats and sheep lead to a poor turnout of goat and sheep
buyers and
low or irregular prices for the farmer.
More
and more livestock auctions are starting to set up special monthly goat
and
sheep sales. These sales have larger numbers of goats and sheep and
thus,
attract more buyers leading to higher prices. Lists of livestock
auctions that
have special goat and sheep sales in Arkansas
and Missouri
are published below, along with sale dates and contact information.
Arkansas Livestock Auctions Which Have Special Sheep
and Goat Sales:
Centerton Livestock Auction, Tim and
Kathy Schlegel, Owners, 2210 Kinyon Road, Centerton, Arkansas
72719,
(479) 795-2397, sale every
Saturday at 7 p.m.
Beebe Livestock Auction, P.O. Box 507 Beebe,
Arkansas 72012, (501) 882-5553, sale
every Saturday
at 10:30 a.m.
London
Auction Barn, 10747 Highway 64 West, London, Arkansas
72847, GarynThompson, Goat sale, third Monday of month, 8:00 PM.
Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction, 6751
Highway 65 N, Harrison,
Arkansas
72601,
(870) 741-6311, sale
usually on 4th Friday of month at 6:00 p.m., but
not always, check
our events page for the
date of the next sale.
Goat Producers of Arkansas, Hope, Arkansas
Fairgrounds, Jesse Duckett, 870-777-4751, sale 7 p.m.,
quarterly
sale, check web site for details: http://www.goatproducersofarkansas.com/,
next sale 3rd Saturday in March.
King Livestock Goat and Sheep Auction,
8894
Hwy. 31, North Lonoke,
Arkansas 72086, (501)
351-1867, cell; 501-676-6343, sale second and fourth Saturday at 1 p.m.
Madison County Livestock Auction, Highway 412,
Huntsville, Arkansas
72740, (479) 665-2525, sale every Saturday at 6 p.m.
Salem Livestock Auction, P.O. Box
118,
Salem, Arkansas
72576, J. W. Guffey, (879)
895-3231; (870)
458-2738, sale 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m.
Missouri
Livestock Auctions Which Have Special Goat
and Sheep Sales:
Archie
Livestock Auction, P.O. Box 65, Archie, Missouri
64725,
Travis Cordray -
Owner/Manager, office, (816)293-8889, fax (816)293-8898,
Home,
(816)289-7869, goat/sheep/small animal sale the second Saturday of each
month
at 10 a.m., Web site: www.archielivestock.com
Buffalo Livestock Market
LLC, P.O. Box 1043, Buffalo, Missouri
65622,
(417) 345-8122 or (417) 345-8236, 4th Tuesday of each
month
special sheep and goat sale begins at 6:00 p.m.
CRS Sales Co. LLC, P.O. Box 190,
Highlandville, Missouri 65669,
Roger and Carolyn Smith, Owners/Managers, office, (417) 443-1180,
home, (417) 443-3265, cell (417) 839-8480, E-mail: carolynsmith@centurytel.com,
Web site: http://www.crssalebarn.com/,
sheep and goat sale held
on 3rd Thursday of
each month at 6:00 p.m.
Farmers Livestock Auction, P.O.
Box 91, Boonville,
Missouri 65233, Larry Bock, Owner/Manager, office,
(660)
882-7413, cell (660) 460-0946, email: fla@cebridge.net,
Web site: www.farmerslivestockauction.com,
sheep and goat sale 3rd Saturday
of each month.
Fruitland Livestock Sales,
Inc., 7505
US Highway 61, Jackson,
Missouri 63755, Neal Franke, Manager, office
(573)
243-4255, cell (573) 382-0003 (Neal), sheep and goats on 3rd Friday of each
month at 10:00 a.m.
Heely Livestock Marketing,
Inc., 535
North Subway, Nevada,
Missouri 64772, P.O. Box 320, El Dorado Springs, MO 64744,
Ross Heely and Ray Heely,
Owners/Managers, office (417) 667-5891, home (417)
876-5510, cell (417) 876-8521, email: ray@hlmauctions.com,
sheep and goat
auction on 4th Saturday
of every month at
1:00 p.m.
Kingsville Livestock Market,
Highway
58, P.O. Box 127, Kingsville,
Missouri 64061, Rick or Jeremy Anstine,
office, (816) 597-3331, home (816) 732-6070 (Rick)
or (816) 716-9288
(Jeremy), email: rda@iland.net,
web site: www.anstineauctions.com,
sheep, goat, feeder pig, and slaughter hog sale 3rd Thursday at 5:00
p.m.
Midwest Exchange Regional
Stockyards,
P.O. Box 246,
Mexico,
Missouri 65265, Joe Smith, Manager, office (573) 581-2250,
cell
(573)
253-1080, email: livestock@KTIS.net,
Thursday
sale begins at 11:30 a.m.
Owensville Auction Company, 3635 Cuba Street,
Owensville, Missouri
65066,
David E. Blankenship, Sr., Manager, Office Phone: (573) 437-5360, Home
Phone:
(573) 437-5360, sale
held 2nd & 4th Saturday of each month, sheep, goats and small
animals at 1:30 p.m.
St. Joseph Stockyards, 4603 Packers Avenue, St.
Joseph, Missouri 64504, Mark Servaes,
Manager, office (816) 238-0626 or (800) 728-0282, email: stjoestockyards@yahoo.com, web
site: http://www.stjoestockyards.com,
sheep and goat
sale 2nd Thursday
of each month at 6:00 p.m.
Salem Livestock Auction, P.O. Box 1252,
Salem, Missouri
65560,
email salemlivestock@accubar.net,
sheep and goats 2nd
Tuesday
of each month at
6:30 p.m.
Whites
Equine Sales,
1863
Hwy. 59, Diamond,
Missouri 64840,
Cecil White, Owner/Manager, office (417) 325-4141, home (417)
325-5263, sheep and
goat sale
held 1st Thursday of each month at 4:00 p.m.
Tina
Livestock Sales,
Inc., P.O. Box 40, Tina, Missouri
64682,
Joe, Jean & Brandon
Eischeid, Owners/Managers, office phone: (660) 622-4214,
home (660)
542-0272, cell (660) 329-5006, email:
tinalivestock@yahoo.com, sheep and goat sale held 1st & 3rd
Saturday of
each month at 10:30 a.m.
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Visit Us and See Our Herd
We are two miles west
of Ralph on County Road 5040.
Ralph is four miles
south of Yellville, Arkansas, on Highway 14.
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